Your tonsils (you know, those two blobs of tissue at the back of your throat) are there for you through every cough, sneeze, and sniffle, battening down the hatches every time an infection tries to ...

Cough, cold, and upper respiratory infections tend to increase during the fall and winter months. Many of those infections are viral, and some are primarily or secondarily bacterial. In children, the ...

THURSDAY, Jan. 29, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Strep throat is a common throat infection that often causes a sore throat, fever ...

Ear Nose and Throat specialist Mbira Gikonyo. (Photo: Beverlyne Musili, Standard) The hospital visits became numerous, tiresome and expensive. The sore throat, runny nose, bad breath, swollen tonsils ...

May 23, 2003 — Temperature-controlled radiofrequency (TCRF) is safe and effective for the reduction of symptomatic hypertrophied tonsils in children, according to the results of a prospective, ...

Q. I know that tonsillectomy is no longer routinely performed in children as it was when I was a child. But what about children who have such enlarged tonsils and adenoids that they obstruct breathing ...

Tonsillectomies are among the most common medical procedures that children undergo. A recent article from the National Institutes of Health estimates more than 500,000 tonsillectomies are performed on ...

A good day of learning for children starts with a good night’s sleep. But what if something is interrupting that? “We homeschool and learning was just ...

The health visitor is possibly correct in saying that the cause of your grandson's loud snoring is enlargement of his tonsils - the other cause could be enlarged adenoids - or he could suffer with ...